Happiness
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Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness — and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness', we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent'.
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find — and I hear from other people that they agree — that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.
Independence is happiness.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.